Sentient, a New York-based artificial intelligence company, has introduced grid, an open source network designed for building and monetizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) Systems.
The company says the platform is aimed at providing a decentralized alternative to closed AI market places from companies like Openai. Developers can connect their AI agents, models or tools and earn token-based rewards with utility fees and subscriptions available as optional revenue routes.
At the time of his debut, the grid hosts over 40 AI agents, 50 data sources and more than 10 models spanning both web2 and web3. These include tools such as napkin, a generative graphics engine and exa, a search start and blockchain-connected agents that are inserted across base, polygon, terms and others.
Users can access these through sentient chat, a interface to detect and combine agents in workflows that are able to handle tasks such as calendar coordination, code generation and data visualization.
“The grid is the world’s largest collection of open source intelligence and the economic rails that allow it to scale,” said Himanshu Tyagi, co-founder of Sentient.
“This is not just a better app store for AI; it’s about delivering the basic infrastructure to make open source AI viable in the long term,” Tyagi added.
A key feature of the grid is its emphasis on interoperability. The platform allows agents to share memory and coordinate in real time. This is intended to tackle a challenge in Enterprise AI, where several “assistant” systems often operate in silos.
Sentient says over two million people are connected to the waiting list to the network, where dozens of partners participate in debut.
The company’s leadership frame the initiative as an effort to democratize AGI development, which allows local communities to control and take advantage of the technology rather than concentrate control within a small number of private laboratories.
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